On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 16:40 -0800, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 16.01.2014 16:02, Noel Butler wrote:
The vast majority of MUA software on the planet has only Reply and Reply All. Those users are using Reply All, so as to keep it a group discussion.
Where did I say we needed another reply-x_function?
"Reply All" has a standard, decades old behavior, and mailing list robots are designed around the assumption that it is used.
Where did I say it wasn't?
you seem to be pretty crash hot at putting words into peoples mouths when they did say no such thing, keep on track with my comments and not the comments of others when replying to me, else dont waste your time, or mine, trying to force yor options down others throat when it is not the content I brought to the discussion.
The assumption that "we are in the same list" only holds when all the recipients of the message are subscribers of the list (because it rejects posts
and if they are not, they become irrelevant (another pet hate, carry out *general discussions* across multiple lists)
Reply All does the right thing in all circumstances. Mailing list robots know that it's being used and process things intelligently.
Never said it didnt, there you go again...
The new-fangled Reply List is nonstandard, and makes assumptions about how lists are configured. As Ben Schmidt has noted, it is useful in specific
I made no comment on reply-list, so I wont bother entertaining you with any response on that.
Not always, this account for instance sorts by list, anything not associate with a list-id or x-been-there, gets sent to an x-blah folder right at the end, so my inbox stays pretty empty, and your direct messages may not get read for weeks, as I liken it to a second spam folder :)
There are two good ways to sort list-related discussions into folders. If the list postings have some subject line tag like [RCU], you can use that.
Good grief, who uses subject for filtering in 2014, yes, in 1994 I did, like most, use it, but spammers quickly learned and adopted, so we adapted and passed that over decades ago.